Sophisticats - Week 9

Time for a new challenge over at Sophisticats and this week the theme has been set by Cheryl, she wants to see ribbons & buttons on your creation.

I've only got 1 ribbon & three buttons, so I think I'm ok - put it this way she hasn't told me off! Yet!

I've used my new Stampin' Up! set Trendy Trees, in three of the SU! Earth Element colours, More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie & Really Rust and have used good old Stamp a ma jig, to line them up as well as line up the tree trunks, which are stamped in Chocolate Chip. The sentiment is from the same set, also stamped in Chocolate Chip, the buttons are Earth Elements too. I've used a bit of SU! chalk around the edges of the image just to soften the white.

I've used one of my Charisma DT buddies - Vee's sketches, she has a great blog if you're ever stuck for a sketch to use and you can pop over here for a look - thanks Vee, I just needed a push in the right direction and your sketch got me going!

The papers are from a FunkyHand CD - Seasons and I'm also entering this card into the Get Funky monthly challenge, which is Autumn Woodland, along with Crafty Creations, who are looking for Thanksgiving/Gratitude cards.

Cardstock is SU! More Mustard and Whisper White, the ribbon is from my stash.

Hope you can play along with us at Sophisticats this week, we were thrilled with the number of entries we had last week & hope we can better it this week.

TFL x

Sophisticats Week 7 meets Crafty Creations and Paper Blooms

First of all thank you all so much for the wonderful messages of support you've left me regarding our break-in, I'm really touched and appreciate the support & love you've all sent - thanks so much. Feeling ok this morning and determined to put it all behind me, Kev's sorting us a house alarm today, which we didn't have because we thought we were safe here! Obviously not, but it's onwards and upwards and thanks again for all your support.

It's week 7 over at Sophisticats and this week we've got a great sketch set by Lisa.

I'm also entering my card over at Paper Blooms, their theme is Monochrome and also at Crafty Creations as their theme is Blue and my card is done using Stampin' Up! Bashful Blue cardstock and Bashful Blue DSP's, which are gorgeous, I'm not normally a blue kinda gal, but I love Bashful Blue and use it again & again. My cute little mouse is from DigiStamp Boutique and I've just coloured his paws using PM's, a bit of grey around the outline and blue on the snowflake which I've then added glitter to. I've also added a tiny bit of blue chalk around the edge of the circle, which isn't too clear from the pic.

The sentiment is SU! from the set Circle of Friendship (you'll be seeing a lot of this one on my Christmas cards!), layered onto a circle of Bashful Blue, which I've also glittered. I've added some snowflake brads from my stash and that's it!

Hope you can join in the fun this week at Sophisticats.

New Nutshells stamp for 3 Challenges

I was honoured to be asked to be a Guest Designer for Nutshells during August and they sent me a couple of their new, soon to be released scenery stamps, which are lovely. I've used the Fashion Boutique one for this card, which I'm entering into three challenges:

Stamp Something - Paper Piece

Die Cut Dreams - Fashion Frenzy

Crafty Creations - Buttons

I've coloured the image with ProMarkers and have paper pieced the two dresses, the ribbon on the 2nd dress has been coloured with a Sakura Moondust pen and I've used some chalk to colour the background as it looked a bit white without it (I masked the door, window & shop sign first)

The DSP's are digital papers from "Two Peas in a Bucket", the cardstock is Stampin' Up! Taken with Teal & the buttons are from my stash.

TFL x

Crafty Creations - No. 22

I've been a busy girl this morning and finally got a bit of crafting done, I've made three cards and have another one, hopefully two to do this afternoon, but can only show you this one I've done so far as the other two are birthday cards for some fellow bloggers and I don't want to spoil the surprise!

This card I've made for my lovely Auntie Sheila who is 80 next week and I think the chances of her seeing my blog before the card arrives in South Wales is highly unlikely!

It's my first flowerpot card & I loved doing it, will definitely be doing one of these again (and thanks to Helen of All Things Stampy for the instructions) and I'm entering it into Crafty Creations Celebrations Challenge (ooh what a lot of "C"s!!)

I've used SU! cardstock More Mustard for the pot, the DSP is from Sweet Always and the ribbon is SU! Whisper White, the flowers I've cut out of a sheet of toppers I've had for ages - I think they're Buzzcraft, the sentiment is SU! from "Cheer & Wishes" and is layered onto Pixie Pink c/s, to finish I've cut out the 80 digits on my Cuttlebug.

TFL